LOVEZILLA

Salon Party

Feb
15

Two down, one to go.  My first and youngest children’s birthdays are eight days apart, so when it comes to celebrating, it gets crazy around here.  Thankfully, I have until March till the next one.  Anyway, back to the party. My oldest daughter wanted to have a Salon Party.  To make it a little more fun, we had the girls come in their pajamas.  

I had four different stations set up.  One for nails, one for friendship bracelets, and the others for bling strands and hair styling. Gratefully, I have two friends that know how to put in color strands and can also do hair.

I purchased colored hair styling glue and strands at a beauty supply store.  All the girls had a blast with it!  As the girls waited to get their hair done, they painted their nails and made  Friendship Bracelets we have shared on our site.

 

Now in the interest of honesty, I’ll share with you my highs and lows.  I was “attempting” to make a zebra cake that I had seen on Pinterest. I assumed I knew everything about how to make the cake by simply looking at the picture and NOT reading the instructions, I just “went for it”.  I was, of course, on a time crunch. Failure? No.  Looked like a zebra?  Sort of.

Luckily, children are VERY forgiving when it comes to cake. They thought it looked like a Zebra.  I’m assuming none of them have been on Pinterest lately.( Or maybe even seen a real zebra.)

 

Now onto the high.  I ended up decorating the cake and cupcakes with an easy Jello frosting recipe that only has four ingredients.  Coleen posted this icing on her blog.  It was AMAZING.  It was YUMMY. It was WORKABLE and I LOVED it!  The cake was white vanilla and dark fudge chocolate so I used a strawberry Jello.  I will defiantly be using this again.  You can access that recipe by clicking here.  You will be happy you did!

Tangled Birthday Party

Jan
23

Phew!  It’s over!  This has been the biggest, behind the scene birthday party to date.  If you want more information leave a comment and I will bore give you more detail.

This tower is 21 donuts high.  When all was said and done it ended up being around 3 feet 7 inches tall.  The kids couldn’t believe it.  I placed it on my island for dramatic purposes.  It truly “towered” over them!

 

To try to maintain some order,  I had three different stations set up.  Two were games, one was a craft.  We rotated the kids between stations to keep them engaged.  I bought several small items as prizes for the games.  They got to choose between: pencils, bouncy balls, bubbles, play dough, bracelets, erasers, stickers and finger puppets.

The first game was a “Pin the Pan on Flynn”.  We blindfolded the kids with a sleeping mask and had them try to pan Flynn in the face.

The “Maximus Apple Toss” was next.  Can you see how cute the apple bean bags are?  Sending a shout out to my friend Debra for hooking me up with those.  (Learning to sew is on my Resolution list)

 

The last station was the lantern craft.  All you need is heavyweight construction paper, scissors, crayons and stickers.  They are so simple.  Fold the construction paper in half.  Cut, (starting at the fold) across the paper stopping about an inch before the edge. There were roughly 5 to 6 evenly spaced lines per paper.   I had the kids decorate the lanterns with sticker and crayons.  Didn’t they turn out cute?  The kids absolutely loved them!

 

I placed a paint set (Remember Rapunzel was a painter) in sacks for the kids.   I used a mailing label to stick on the paints, thanking the kids for coming to the party.  They placed all their prizes, the coloring page and donut remainders in their sack to spare us from the whines of who’s prize was who’s.

All the kids had a blast.  I am tired, but luckily it’s a family tradition to go out to dinner to a place of the birthday person’s choice.